The two holes or two seaters as we called them were for mothers and the younger children to help them in getting potty trained. In some of them one hole was smaller than the other one. My mother-in-law use to keep a slop jar in the back room so she did not have to go outside after dark. When my children were little she added a smaller one to the room for them. Of course their was always the chore the next morning of empting them and so they were clean and fresh for the next night. Josephine ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [RIDDLE-L] Off topic "Grandma's recipe for washing" Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. When I was little and growing up in the hills of Southern Oregon, we didn't have indoor plumbing, we had a two-holer (never could figure out why two holes), a pitcher pump for water in the kitchen, a woodburning cookstove and kerosene lanterns for lights, and that old washtub was used for my bathtub too. I was six years old before we got indoor plumbing and did away with the outhouse. I still have the old pitcher pump, but now it sits out in the middle of my herb garden and I have all the old kerosene lanterns. Sure wish I had that old cookstove. Once in awhile during cold winter nights, just for nostalgia, I turn out all the lights and light up the old lanterns and remember what it was like when I was a carefree kid. Happy Easter to all my Riddle cousins. Dream Back the Buffalo, Sing Back the Swans Carolyn Condray-Merritt gggranddaughter of Terry Riddle [email protected] ==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, please send the command "unsubscribe" in an email to: [email protected] (if in mail mode) or [email protected] (if in digest mode) ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com